31 Tremolo Pedals with Tap Tempo

Quick Summary: A simple listing of tremolo pedals with tap tempo or dual speed functionality that provide greater (or complete) control over the rate and speed of the effect.

This curation is an extension of our best tremolo pedal roundup, meant to be a more cleanly sorted list containing only tremolo pedals with tap tempo or dual speed functionality. We've combed through Reverb, Amazon and some obscure search engine browsing to find all the tremolo pedals that contain these features, should they be something you're looking for.

This list is simply meant to be a pre-filtered sorting mechanism. It's not a review, recommendation or ranking.

It's just a place where you can find all the tremolo pedals with tap tempo functionality in one place, for browsing and comparison.

If you're looking for other types of effects, checkout our best guitar pedal resource page.

Difference Between Tap Tempo and Dual Speed Tremolo

Tremolo pedals almost always have a rate knob, yet many of them have no way to control that knob outside of adjusting it by hand. A tap tempo and dual speed control are the two primary ways to get around that, allowing you to control the rate of the tremolo effect with your foot.

Both of these are usually implemented via a second switch on the pedal.

Tap tempo allows you to control the rate of the tremolo by repeatedly tapping the switch at the speed you want the effect set at. A dual speed control is a selector switch that allows you to jump back and forth between two speeds.

We've included both in this roundup, though there are far more tap tempo options.

In a tremolo pedal, tap tempo can be implemented in one of two ways. The most common method, as I mentioned, is an additional button on the pedal for "tapping" the tempo in with your foot. The less common alternative is to make the tempo adjustment available via an external footswitch, which can either be a button or volume-style foot pedal.

Most of the tremolo pedals in this list have the tap tempo built into the actual stompbox. Where an external footswitch is required, we've made note of it. All of the links lead to either an Amazon listing, Reverb entry or product homepage. If the pedal is discontinued or not available via major retailers, Reverb will typically have it.

Note that we have not been paid or received free products from any of the companies listed. Also keep in mind, this is a curation and not a review.

If you know of a tap tempo tremolo pedal that we've missed, hit us up the comments section and we'll include it.

• Diamond Pedals Tremolo
• Chase Bliss Audio Gravitas Digitally Controlled Analog Tremolo
• Wampler Latitude Deluxe Tremolo 
• Fulltone Supa Trem 2
• Walrus Audio Monument Harmonic Tap Tremolo
• Seymour Duncan Shapeshifter Tremolo
• ZVEX Sonar Vexter Tremolo
• Aalberg TRYM Tremolo
• Empress Effects Tap Tremolo
• Matthews Effects the Conductor Optical Tremolo
• Cusack Music Tap-a-Whirl Analog Tremolo Pedal
• TC Electronic Pipeline Tap Tremolo
• Dawner Prince Electronics STARLA Tap Tremolo
• Westminster Effects Luther Tap Tremolo
• LovePedal Custom Built Tap Tremolo
• Electro-Harmonix Super Pulsar
• Jonny Rock Gear Wave Rider
• Strymon Flint Tremolo and Reverb (external footswitch)
• Line 6 ToneCore Tap Tremolo
• Alexander Pedals Equilibrium Tremolo
• DLS Effects TR1 Stereo Tremolo
• Copilot FX Polypus Tap Tempo Tremolo
• Stomp Audio Lab Waves Tap Tremolo
• JHS Kodiak Tremolo

Dual speed tremolo pedals, that allow you to basically switch between two knob settings, are far less common. They're also far less functional, though still preferable to having no method of speed control outside of a rate knob. You'll see them mostly in the boutique guitar pedal arena, with the most popular models coming from Fulltone, BBE and JHS Pedals.

• J Rockett Audio Josh Smith Dual Signature Tremolo
• Fulltone SupaTrem ST-1
• BBE Tremor Dual-Mode Analog Tremolo
• JHS Honeycomb Dual Speed Tremolo
• Stone Deaf Tremotron Dual Analog Tremolo
• Soundboy Massacre Wobbler Dual Tremolo
• Black Cat Mini Trem

Anything to add?

When you incorporate smaller manufacturers and boutique pedal makers, there are a lot of different tremolo pedals out there with a tap tempo built in. There may even be some mainline options we're missing, particularly if they've been discontinued.

However, this is a running list that we intend to update as time goes on.

In that regard, we could use some help.

If you know of a tremolo pedal with tap tempo or dual speed controls, drop us a line in the comments section, along with a link to the pedal's manufacturer or sales page and we'll include it in this write-up. 

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